Arsenic in water

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[QUOTE="Chaerie, post: 18816557, member: 485401")

Believe me, if you saw my place, you wouldn't be recommending distilling my water haha. How do you even do that? Boil it on the stove? Maybe this is the wrong forum for me[/QUOTE]

Nah, this is like any other forum. There is a gambit of all personalities here. I'm on one end of the spectrum. When it's raining I look out and half my flock doesn't have the sense to get out of the rain. Some on this forum will fret about that and may even go out in the rain and try to shoo them in. Me, I just think , 'Stupid chickens are getting wet. I'm inside, dry and I'm not about to go out there and get wet.".

There is a very good knowledge base on this forum. Just ignore what you consider to be nonsense.

 

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We've got 2 wells. The one that goes to the house is the one with arsenic. The other one is an older ag well, which is quite a ways downhill from the garden and chicken area.

This is an older home, existing wells. We have a conventional loan, and believe me we nearly backed out because of this issue but we did a whole lot of research and decided to manage by doing RO water for drinking.

So, thing is, they didn't even require this test to purchase the home. The coliform testing was required, and we purchased lead and arsenic on our own. Even the water lab didn't recommend arsenic testing. But we insisted, and lo and behold, here we are today. My realtor said we did the more testing than any of her clients, and she's been a realtor for like 30 years. People just don't care (?). It sounds scary but plenty of people have arsenic in their water. It's very common in Arizona, people just RO their water. Can even be in city water. The guidelines a few years ago was 50ppm and under, they only recently changed it to 10ppm, so our water at 20ppm is not crazy high. I can talk your ear off about water, so to speak. I was just hoping maybe someone else would have some experience and can give me some insight.

Believe me, if you saw my place, you wouldn't be recommending distilling my water haha. How do you even do that? Boil it on the stove? Maybe this is the wrong forum for me

I'm sorry I don't understand what does the way your place looks have to do with distilling water? You can boil it on the stove but have to catch the steam and condense it. Evaporating it breaks it down into hydrogen and oxygen then as it cools back into h2o. It's the purest form of water you can get. It was just a suggestion.

 

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Don't worry I have no more suggestions I wouldn't want you to leave the forum just because of an idea good luck and farewell